CMN 588: Analyzing Institutional Interaction Professor Pillet-Shore Unit 3 Study Guide Work to answer these questions as you do the readings for this unit, making sure to also refer to your class lecture notes. These are intended to help you prepare for quizzes/tests and also help you master key concepts for use in doing class assignments. 1. Jurors strive not only to reach a verdict, but also to establish the accountability of their conduct. What does this mean? How does this become manifest in jury deliberations? In the film ‘Inside the Jury Room’, what were some of the practices through which the jurors dealt with the accountability of their conduct? 2. Maynard and Manzo (‘On the sociology of justice’) approach the phenomenon of ‘justice’ very differently from the way it has been addressed by other social scientists. What is distinctive about the Maynard and Manzo approach, and what role does the phenomenon of talk at work play in their approach? 3. Describe the turn taking system for trial examinations, and explain how it affects the task of establishing guilt/innocence. 4. How do witnesses, under cross-examination, contest or dispute versions of events embedded in the attorney’s questions? What is the difference between explicit and implicit methods of contestation? 5. What is ‘the maximal property of descriptions,’ and what is its significance in crossexamination? 6. According to Drew (‘Contested evidence in cross-examination’), claiming ‘I don’t remember’ is a particularly effective way of resisting a line of questioning. What makes it so? 7. According to Drew, what is one strategy that cross-examining attorneys use to deal with uncooperative witnesses? 8. What were some of the techniques used by the defense in the Rodney King trial to counteract the evidence of the videotape? 9. Charles Goodwin (‘Professional vision’) argues against a purely psychological theory of vision. What alternative theory does he offer, and what evidence does he present to support it? How does the phenomenon of talk at work figure in Goodwin’s theory? 10. Compare and contrast Drew’s analysis of the rape trial with Goodwin’s analysis of the King trial, in terms of the practices of witnesses in trial examinations. 11. When citizen drivers are pulled over by police officers for a traffic stop, Kidwell (2018) shows that, within the first few moments of their interaction, the reason for the encounter/stop connects pre-beginning events to ratified interaction between officer and citizen. What is the ‘pre-beginning’ phase of the encounter in a traffic stop? What is ‘pretextual policing’? What does Kidwell mean by ‘alignment’ when she states that the reason for the traffic stop is an important site of alignment, as well as contestation, that can affect the course of the encounter in highly consequential ways? 12. According to Kidwell (2018), what is the overarching (or overall structural) organization (or recurrent shape) of a typical traffic stop in the United States? How is a traffic stop different from a service encounter? Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: professionals criminal history human environment User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.
